Review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly — 01 Feb 2021
Black Messiah's center of gravity has to be a Hampton you can't look away from, and Kaluuya — alternately raw, tender, and incendiary — duly electrifies every scene he's in. Righteous as the road may be, his Fred hasn't been flattened to fit the broad Wikipedia-worn contours of a martyr or a hero; he lives and breathes, down to the last indelible frame.
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This review of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) was written by Leah Greenblatt and published by Entertainment Weekly on 01 Feb 2021.
Judas and the Black Messiah has generally received very positive reviews.
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